The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-18
EXPOSITION NOTES.
The Great Attractions to be Seen
at the Coming Piedmont Fair.
A CHANCE TO SEE THE WONDERFUL.

nate Wnen tney stay III one place all the Tune
and never see anything but their own neigh
| borhood
Now you have the chance of your life to take
a trip and see world ofsights atleast cost and
in least time. 1t is to go to the Piedmont eX-
position, which opens in Atlanta October 10,
closing October %. What will you see there?
/. An exposition covering eight acres of
solid exhibits of every article from candy
stick to a steam engine-tho latest wonders of
science in every department. A day i'll these
buildings is a liberal education.
2. A building devoted to cattle. GOO feet by
100; a building devoted to poultry, 200 by 200;
800 stables for horses; swine, goats, sheep,
etc, in abundance.
3. The collective county exhibits of dozen
counties, showing the resources of each county
in agricultural and industrial products, ladies'
handiworb, live stock and everything raised in
the county.
4. The richest epitome of the south's riches
ever shown in collective exhibits from the citi-
les of birmingham, Admission, Decatur, Tusca-
loosa Gadsden, Rome and Tallapoosa. The
Richmond and Danyillo railroad, the Marietta
and North Georgia railroad, the East Tennes-
see road and the Florida Southern road. Each
of these collective exhibits will cost thousands
of dollars, and you will SEQ the grandest show
of southern riches ever made.
5. An art gallery with 400 pictures from the
| best living artists, and thirty paintings from
Mr.. George I. Seney's gallery, which ranks
| with Vanderbilts. One of these pictures cost
| $4,000 Qorty Thousand dollars,) and the thir-
| ty cost over quarter of million dollars.
6. President Cleveland and his wife-Pres-
dent Cleveland will make speech one day
watch the sham battle and review tho troops
next day, and he and his wife will be ready to
shake hands with you all the time. Don't
miss or let your children miss seeing the first
democratic president ever south and his beau
tiful and clever wife. They will always re-
member having shaken hands with these
great people.
7. A magnificent sham battle covering 70
acres with four batteries of artillery, ten COM
panies of cavalry and 5000 infantry. The
president and his wife will watch the battle
which lasts two hours, and he will then review
the troops and hold public reception.
8. A torchlight procession with 10000 young
democrats in line, the city illuminated, and
the very skies lit with the splendor of tho
scene. This will be the sight of lifetime.
9. The grandest firework displays ever given
in America. One feature will be q living wall
OF fire $40 feet long, 40 feet high roaring and
sparkling like Neagara. These displays will
last two hours You have never dreamed of
anything gorgeous The pictures of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland will be shown in fire
in mid air, surrounded by thousands of rock
cts
TO- Tho illumination of Kennesaw noun
| tain. The whole mountain stands out like a
| picture ia rcd light, cannon boom on its side,
| and 5000 rockets arc fired by electric match
| from its center. Pictures of General johnson
| and General Sherman will be displayed in fire
against the skies. Such spectacle as this
Illuminated mountain has never been seen.
IL. Bicycle races, on which man can beat
horses running. Balloon ascensions in which
you can go 1000 feet up in balloon and DO
landed back safely.
IL. Horse races every day, bringing horses
from all sections Of tho country.
10. Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia
Governor Richardson, of South Carolina; Gov
ernor Bob Taylor of Tennessee; Governor
Seay, of Alabama; Governor Perry, of Flori-
da; Governor Gordon, Of Georgia. each with
his military staff of forty mounted men.
IA. The city of Atlanta, the best city in the
south, full Of sights Of special and historic in.
terest.
10. A vast number of amusements and sights
which we cannot enumerate. Everything
from the old fashioned circus to a flying jenny
A solid two weeks of instruction and amuse-
ment.
NOW all bulS Will give you enough BlRnbS 10
talk about for years-will be an education to
yourself and children and will show you more
in three or four days than you could get by
travelling four or five months. Now, what
does it cost?
First, the railroad fare Is lower than ever
before. From no point it is moro than one
third the regular rate. 1t is one cent mile
each way, and from some points even less than
that. III your railroad station is a hundred and
fifty miles from Atlanta the faro cannot be
more than three dollars for tho round trip, and
may be less.
O. II costs you only fifty cents to see every
thing on tho exposition grounds-twenty-fve
cents for children. This includes seeing tho
fireworks, the balloon ascensions, the sham
battle, hearing the president speak, shaking
hands with him, the races, and everything on
the grounds. You can stay on the grounds all
day long, II You want to, even until 10
o'clock at night, when the fire works will DO
closed. 1t costs you only fifty cents for the
day and night, and your children twenty-five
cents.
3. There will DO sandwich stands and res
taurants all over the grounds. At place
can you be charged more than fifty cents a
meal, while sandwiches with milk and coffee
can be had from ten to twenty-five cents. You
can get breakfast, dinner and supper on the
grounds, and in no cases be charged more than
fifty cents meal. If you bring your own pro.
visions you will find plenty Of places in which
TO spread them out, picnic fashion, and eat
without any cost. There are public buildings
for public comforts free to everybody.
4. The exposition has engaged 4 large num-
Der Of rooms in the city in which five or six
or seven cots are placed. The charge for
nights bed at these places will not exceed fifty
cents night. BY making up party of six
or eight you can tako all the cots in a room at
fifty cents a piece, and each cot will take a
grown person and child.
o. The exposition committee has canyassed
the city thoroughly and has list of boarding
houses, and private houses, where strangers
can be accommodated, with the price at each
house. These prices arc low, except at tho
most expensive hotels where they run up to
from three to five dollars a day for each person
6. II visitors desire to camp out, they will
find number Of places whore they can be pro-
tectcd without any charge.
In short IL has been the aim ofthc committee
to make this a cheap exposition, so that all the
people could come They have guarded every